#Oregon promotes teacher program to subtract ‘racism in mathematics’

#Oregon promotes teacher program to subtract ‘racism in mathematics’

“#Oregon promotes teacher program to subtract ‘racism in mathematics’” The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) recently encouraged teachers to register for training that encourages “ethnomathematics” and argues, among other things, that White supremacy manifests itself in the focus on finding the right answer. An ODE newsletter sent last week advertises a Feb. 21 “Pathway to…

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#Public school parents are fleeing to charters, too

#Public school parents are fleeing to charters, too

“#Public school parents are fleeing to charters, too” In this pandemic-stricken school year, one sector of New York City public education has thrived: Publicly financed, privately run charter schools in the city saw their enrollment boom by nearly 10,000 this term, new data show.    Charters have managed to thrive despite state-mandated enrollment caps and…

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#Letters to the Editor — Feb. 5, 2021

#Letters to the Editor — Feb. 5, 2021

“#Letters to the Editor — Feb. 5, 2021” The Issue: City schools’ use of quotes from Joanne Chesimard in a “Black Lives Matter at School” week. A cop-killer is being honored by Black Lives Matter in our city schools (“Teaching hatred,” Feb. 4). Joanne Chesimard is a convicted murderer and nothing else. She murdered a…

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#Another fail by the NYC Department of Education

#Another fail by the NYC Department of Education

“#Another fail by the NYC Department of Education” Did anyone at the city Department of Education think once, let alone twice, about allowing young students to be taught lessons from a curriculum drawn up by Black Lives Matter radicals? One that idealizes a cold-blooded cop-killer? As The Post’s Selim Algar and Lee Brown report, city public…

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#Hey, WHO! Do a real Wuhan probe: Devine

#Hey, WHO! Do a real Wuhan probe: Devine

“#Hey, WHO! Do a real Wuhan probe: Devine” Finally, the World Health Organization has sent investigators to Wuhan, China, ground zero for COVID-19, to begin the belated search for the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.  Today they will emerge from 14 days of quarantine. They should go straight to the Wuhan Institute of ­Virology, where…

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